From: ichi@ihug.co.nz
To: james miller <jamtat@mailandnews.com>
Cc: linux-newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAM and swap partition
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:15:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF5A29B.37AFD2D7@ihug.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DF4FBF0@mailandnews.com
james miller wrote:
>
> Let me pose the RAM question in another way to see if
> it can elicit a generic, "rule-of-thumb" response
I'm happy to give you my personal "rule-of-thumb",
but that's all it is. It's not an absolute truth.
Every system gets at least 16mb of total memory.
So, a system with 4mb RAM gets 12mb swap.
Light X installations with slim wm (*not* KDE or Gnome)
get at least 32mb total memory. So, a system with 12mb RAM
gets 24mb swap.
Heavy X installations need RAM. Lots of RAM. Swap is
less relevant on such systems.
Cheers,
Steven
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-10 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-09 18:22 RAM and swap partition james miller
2002-12-09 18:47 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-12-10 8:39 ` ichi
2002-12-09 20:59 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-09 20:59 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-10 8:15 ` ichi [this message]
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2002-12-16 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2002-12-16 21:33 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-15 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2002-12-15 4:07 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-13 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2002-12-13 22:31 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-07 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2002-12-08 2:28 ` whitnl73
2002-12-07 0:00 Heimo Claasen
2002-12-08 0:24 ` james niland
2002-12-08 13:15 ` Rolf Edlund
2002-12-08 15:58 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-12-08 21:43 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-11 18:32 ` Rolf Edlund
2002-12-09 7:13 ` ichi
2002-12-08 21:39 ` whitnl73
2002-12-11 18:03 ` Rolf Edlund
2002-12-08 0:35 ` dashielljt
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